i want to bring senator john kennedy
republican louisiana
into this as you can see the uh biden
motorcade has has arrived at this venue
a school venue here to introduce his
running mate and as we've been
discussing
it will be a little surreal here not
your typical fanfare pageantry it's
certainly crowds
normally associated with the
introduction of a presidential
ticket the the you know the covet 19
world in which we live
senator what do you think you've worked
with her of kamala harris on this
on this uh ticket now uh
the white house already said she's the
most liberal member of the senate i mean
others disagree with saying the most
liberal but
your thoughts on her
can you uh hear me neil
yes i can senator we have
i'm in louisiana we have a little bit of
an electrical problem there
um kamala is my colleague so i want to i
want to congratulate her
um i think she is uh she's very
personable
uh she's very smart she's very
aggressive
and she's very liberal um
i i i think of kamala i would say i
would describe her
as uh um congresswoman ocasio-cortez
uh but smarter and without the
bartending experience
um she'll be a very formidable candidate
um you know uh i'm wondering how this
ticket
drives on on issues at which they have
disagreed in the past wouldn't be the
first time
that's happened famously many hearken
back to george bush senior
who had once called ronald reagan's tax
cut plans voodoo economics
we know that you know politics makes
strange bedfellows and bygones
can indeed be bygones but but i'm
wondering in this case
uh they do seem largely and simpatico
on on issues like providing healthcare
for all
you know rejiggering of the affordable
care act uh
maybe raising taxes on companies not
quite
the professor of tax increases that
summon the party espoused like bernie
sanders and
some of the others elizabeth warren so
in that
crowd they like to say they're they are
a moderating
influence do you see this ticket as a
moderating influence over what could
have been
in in that party nomination
no um vice president biden has promised
to be the most liberal president in
history if he's elected
and uh toward that end i think he he
picked the right
running mate because senator senator
harris is very very
very liberal i think they represent
the new democratic party which i think
is clearly moved to the left i don't
think that's
particularly a news flash for anyone
i think they both believe were one tax
increase away from prosperity and they
will massively raise taxes
i think they're very both very
pro-abortion
uh they think that border is a nuisance
uh i think in terms of our of our uh
our enemies across the world uh
they think we need to be more
understanding
um i don't think they believe that
weakness invites the wolves as i do
i mean i think what you see is what
you're going to get if if
they're elected now having said all that
people don't
people vote for president because of
who's who the
nominee is they don't vote for president
because of the vice president so i don't
want to
overstate this but i would not consider
senator harris to be a moderating uh
influence that's not a criticism this is
america you can believe what you want
but but uh com was very liberal
you know um senator i talked earlier
today on fox business which if you don't
get sir you should demand but i think
you already get it
well he was telling me the former san
francisco mayor who dated a kamala
harris for a while
um he urged her not uh some some days
back
to to take the vice president's if it
were often to her
because he's convinced there could be a
sort of a
house of cards falling here through no
fault of joe biden
or whoever the vice president ultimately
would be
because things could start cascading
swiftly
and you'd be associated with a single
term presidency that was you know going
up
uh you know in flames he didn't say in
flames that things would be problematic
um he thought if she were you know
angling for attorney general that might
be a stronger
a stronger push but his concerns about
these next four years
do you share those well
first no disrespect but i think that's
nonsense
uh these these sorts of opportunities
don't come along
very often sometimes they don't come
along at all
and you either it's it's never a perfect
time you either seize them or you don't
and i think senator harris wanted to be
the nominee i think she worked
hard to be the vice presidential nominee
and
and she grabbed it and i don't i don't
blame her for doing that
uh are the next four years gonna be
tough um
yes i mean uh look around we're in the
middle of a pandemic
uh we've probably done permanent damage
to our economy
i've never seen racial strife as bad as
it is and
at this particular moment we have
countries that hate us china russia
north korea uh iran
um you know we'll get to it because
we're americans but
uh it's gonna be a challenging four
years whoever the president
is senator kennedy thank you very very
much sir we'll be watching
all this very very closely the